Re: [Evolution] Print Error with Evolution

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Personally I think you should lobby your government to get into the 20th century ... :)

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 08:57 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> I thought I posted a question, but I can not find the thread to post my
> update and resolution. 
>
> Original question was that printing from Evolution 1.4 on SuSE 9.0 KDE
> would not work. I was having to cut and paste documents into kwrite or
> Ooo to get my emails to print. What was interesting was that the jobs
> woiuld hit the local CUPS queue and then start feeding into the buffer
> of the printer (data light indicating job coming in). The queue would
> empty then the printer buffer would just empty without printing (or an
> error). Normaly I would blame CUPS or the Printer if it wasn't for the
> fact that it was Evolution only having the issue. 
>
>
> This weekend I figured it out. The issue is that Evolution (or maybe it
> is an underlying KDE thing) had the printer set to paper type A4 instead
> of US Letter. Once I changed that the printing worked. What is still an
> issue is that I have to keep changing that setting for every print. This
> is kind of irritating. I thought that the app just handed off the job to
> the print spooler for formating but aparently I what I think is wrong. I
> am poking around in evolution to see if their are any printer
> configuration settings I can force to keep the paper type at US Letter.
>
> Thanks,
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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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